It leads to the album’s halfway mark, which signifies the most poignant moment in Metallica’s career with the brave introduction of a thrash metal ballad, “Fade To Black,” marking yet another new approach to thrash metal. Without warning, the opening sequence to the thunderous, stadium-bothering third track, “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” solidifies the impact of Ride The Lightning as one of the group’s most iconic albums, marrying the unlikely styles of then bassist Cliff Burton’s classic rock and jazz influences with the rest of the band’s metal drive.
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Elsewhere, songs deal with the idea of living death through cryogenics (“Trapped Under Ice”), self-empowerment (“Escape”), and tales of Biblical prophecy (the timeless anthem “Creeping Death”). The latter permeates the title track, which explodes with a catchy groove-infested riff and an anthemic chorus that still rings out loud today – the work of a maturing band pushing the boundaries of heavy metal and exploring uncharted territory within the very genre they had helped create. Abandoning the then-dominant heavy metal subject matter of demons, wizards and fantasy, Ride The Lightning’s lyrical content was inspired by politics, history, war, and capital punishment. The album’s opening track, “Fight Fire With Fire,” sets the tone, its sophisticated – but nonetheless brutal – sound creating a perfectly balanced masterpiece. Clearly also step up from its predecessor in terms of production, Ride The Lightning evidenced a more advanced and powerful delivery which is now deemed a genre-defining cornerstone in the way that the thrash and speed metal subgenres sound today. The resultant album cemented Metallica’s separation from their denim- and leather-clad peers. Just prior to finishing a tour with UK black metal pioneers Venom in June 1982, Metallica arrived in Copenhagen to begin pre-recording rehearsals and writing material for Ride The Lightning in Sweet Silence Studios, with producer Flemming Rasmussen at the helm. Picking up from where the likes of Iron Maiden and Motörhead left off, the group was on the cusp of changing the blueprint of the heavy metal genre forever with their sophomore release, Ride The Lightning, released on July 27. Just twelve months after the release of their iconic Kill ’Em All album, thrash metal pioneers Metallica had captured the attention of the world’s metal community, their faster, more aggressive approach to heavy metal injecting a new sense of excitement into the somewhat stagnant US scene of the early 80s. I can check differences between them (if any) and let you know later.The year was 1984. I own the 2015 reissue on vinyl from Blackened and the 5lp box. It starts with the Pono version so it is 20 secs of Pono, next 20 secs 2016 and so on up to 2 minutes.Ĭlick to expand.I don't know what you exactly mean.
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If you are interested, I took the song's That Was Just Your Life first two minutes and put every 20 seconds of each one. Statistics for: 01-That Was Just Your Life